My Name Is Lucy Barton

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關於家庭關於愛關於不完美的一切，卻是她人生中最大的領悟

　　露西和她的兩個兄弟姊妹在伊利諾州一個鄉鎮長大。一家人住在叔叔的車庫裡，沒有暖氣、沒有自來水，也幾乎沒有食物。露西的母親總是很冷淡、疏遠，父親的精神狀態則深受他在二戰的經歷影響。

　　幾年後，露西結了婚，擁有兩個女兒，正在寫她自己的故事。而當露西因為意外的併發症而需要在醫院多住一段時間時，她的母親來探望她了。但其實露西和她的母親已經許多年沒有說過話了，然而因為露西的丈夫不喜歡醫院，而他們又有一對女兒要照顧，因此，露西的媽媽還是來了。

　　在這五天中，她們交談，透過這對母女的對話，所有的八卦，所有的慘澹，露西的記憶觸發了所有過去的秘密。透過這200多頁關於露西的回憶錄，這個關於人性、關於母女、關於家庭的故事，你會發現，你所能給或接受的一切的愛，都是不完美的。　（文／博客來編譯）

　　A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.

　　Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.

作者簡介

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller; Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick; and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.